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The book studies the artistic importance of the cut shell and mother of pearl objects in the Pre-Columbian Mexica culture, analyzing throughout colonial and conquest chronicles their artististic, social, religious and magic attributes associated with the benefits of the water, the fertility of the land, plant abundance and food production. First published by Grupo Financiero Mexival, [1991] in a very limited edition.
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Folk art, Shells, Indians of Mexico, Antiquities, ShellcraftPlaces
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2007, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
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Conchas y caracoles: ese universo maravilloso
2007, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia
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First published: [México] : Grupo Financiero Mexival, [1991].
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-230).
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